The first of my poetic offspring that saw the light was a burlesque lamentation on a quarrel between two reverend Calvinists, both of them dramatis personæ in my "Holy Fair".
Ollivier's volume is the story of a great historic tragedy; the principal dramatis personæ are celebrities of the first rank; on their speech and action depend the destinies of France, and the spectators are the nations of Europe.
It was for a long time the only Indian novel in which the dramatis personæ are entirely native.
Then, the year following, he gathered the poems which immediately preceded and followed Mrs. Browning's death into the volume of Dramatis Personæ.
In each of the dramatis personæ, one of the leading characteristics is loyalty to a dominant ideal.
But until the curtain should rise all arrangements were carefully concealed from every one except the dramatis personæ.
I do beg of you, when you take up the functions of the novelist, not to distribute this species of intoxication amongst your dramatis personæ, more largely than is absolutely necessary.
Do not you, Eugenius, be led by the cant of criticism to sacrifice the real interest of your dramatis personæ.
It is in vain that it strives to compete with the novel in the intricacy of its plot, in the number of its dramatis personæ, in the representation of the peculiarities, or as they used to be called, the humours of men.
James Lee's Wife is a type of the other idyls of love which form so large a part of the Dramatis Personæ.
As a whole, the Dramatis Personæ stands yet more clearly apart from Men and Women than that does from all that had gone before.
It is by Men and Women, the somewhat similar Dramatis Personæ, and the earlier Dramatic Lyrics and Dramatic Romances, that Browning is most widely and most favorably known.
It has no female among its prominent dramatis personæ, and the business of the play, accordingly, is diplomacy and politics, to the entire exclusion of love.
A peculiar class of dramas are the philosophical ones, in which abstractions and systems appear as the dramatis personæ.
It is an allegorical play, the dramatis personæ of which consist entirely of abstract ideas, divided into two conflicting hosts.
Rosaline is frequently mentioned in the first act of the play, but is not one of the dramatis personæ.
This is one of those characters which appear in the dramatis personæ, but are never introduced in the play.
The pictures drawn by Homer, and those feeble imitators who debase his splendid images by the mixture of their own dross, have their scenes laid in the country; but Hogarth has represented his dramatis personæ in the centre of a great city.
It was customary at this time to enact these moral and religious dramas in private houses; and the dramatis personæ were so contrived, that five or six actors might represent twenty characters.
In a copy of this opera, published in 1729, the dramatis personæ are printed as here written; and the good fortune which followed Miss Fenton's attractions in Polly are universally known.
Every Sanskrit play opens with a prologue, or, to speak more correctly, an introduction, designed to prepare the way for the entrance of the dramatis personæ.
That this might be done more artificially, it was often spoken in the character of some person connected with the preceding history of the intrigue, though not properly one of the dramatis personæ.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dramatis person" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
